Brassiere.



W. KOPS.

BRASSIERE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 21. 1911.

Patented Aug. 14, 1917.

WALDEMAR KOPS, OF NEW YORK,

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 27, 1917. Serial No. 164,899.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALDEMAR KoPs, a

citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Im provement in Brassieres, of which the following is the specification.

This invention relates to a brassiere in Which there is preferably provided suitable means for supporting the busts of the wearer, and is a variation of the form of brassiere shown and described in my' copending application Serial No. 152,991 filed garments. The object of this invention is to obviate this difficulty and combine these features in one' garment as is done on the garment shown and described in my application aforesaid. In the present instance however, I construct the bust supporter members of yielding or elastic material so as to automatically conform to the body of the wearer instead of maln'ng these parts of unyielding material, and employing suitable adjusting devices by which they may be adjusted and secured to position on the body. he garment made in accordance with my present invention will be hereinafter more particularly described in connection with the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is an eleyation illustrating the inner side of the brassiere made in accord-' ance with this invention, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the position the garment assumes when on the body.

Referring to the drawing the brassiere may be made in two parts indicated at 10 and 11 connected at adjacent ends along a line of sewing 12 or otherwise in the central portion of the garment adapted to assume a central position on the back of the wearer, While the opposite and normally free edges of the members 11 and 12 may be provided respectively with buttons 13 and button holes 14 by which the front of the garment may be connected when in position on the body. The members 10 and 11 of the garment may also be provided with shoulder straps 15 and 16 respectively thereby providing a means for supporting the garment on the body.

In each half of this garment I employ a bust supporter which in the part 10 is pro vided at one end with a strip 17 secured to the body of the garment on the line of sawing 18 preferably along the medial or un-. der-arm portion thereof, and connected to the strip 17 are sections of elastic fabric 19' and 20 suitably shaped and secured together along the line ofsewing indicated at 21. It will be understood that this bust supporter member of yielding material may be made in one, two, or more pieces depending upon the configuration which it is toassume and rat'enteanag. it, rem.

at its free edge may be provided with series of eyes 22.

Similarly. in the other half of the garment I employ a bust supporter member, a counterpart of that hereinbefore described. This consists of a strip of material 23 secured to the garment along the line of sewing 24 at the medial or under-arm portion thereof,

. and sections of elastic or other yielding fabric 25 and 26-=secured together along a line ofsewing 27 At the opposite. end of this bust supporter member the same is provided with hooks 28 adapted to. engage the eyes 22.

1 In the use of this garment the same is placed on the body in the usual manner and the hooks 28 are caused to engage the eyes 22 whereby through the yielding efiect of the elastic fabric the garment will conform to the body of the wearer and the parts an: tomatically support the busts to a desired extent, while the overlying portions of the brassiere may be connected to one another by means of the buttons 13 and button holes 14: as to completely cover the bust supporters.

I claim .as my invention:

'A brassiere comprising a body member divided at the front, means for connecting the front edges of the body member, bust supporters of yielding material, and means for connecting the front edges of the bust supporters the opposite edges of the bust supporters being connected permanently to the axillary lines of the body member so 5 that in use the bust supporters eoaot with the lower back portion of the body member to yieldingly support the busts of the wearer rem/nee WALDEIWAR KOPS. 

